There are lots of uses for outlines, of course. One interesting one -- and I think it is why apps like Roam are popular -- is dialoging with yourself. You can do that with any writing app, but you can see the dialog in an outline, if you use it for that purpose.

Steve

Amontillado wrote:

Any tool is what you make of it. I think of Ulysses as a bad outliner
the same way I think of Word as a bad spreadsheet.

That's not what either is for.

The trap I fall into with traditional outlines, and the reason I avoid
them like the mixed metaphor, is that it's too easy to start telling the
story. If I give away the good parts in an outline, the story will be
stilted.

It's a personal failing, I'm sure. I'm more creative if I can add fresh
detail to an outline as I write the story instead of just retell the
tale. I don't like writing without a goal. I also don't like being
herded.

Use what works, toss out what doesn't. That applies to scenes and
writing tools.